Writing & Talks
Delta: From Options to Prediction Markets
Delta explains why Polymarket and Kalshi prices move faster than beliefs, and how thinking in portfolio-level delta terms helps you balance conviction and risk like an options trader.
5 Biggest Differences Between Kalshi and Polymarket APIs
A technical overview for new prediction markets builders, comparing Kalshi and Polymarket's prediction market APIs. I wasted some time so you don't have to.
[Building on Bitcoin 2024] Fighting Fragmentation: Why Bitcoin UX Needs a Level Up
Panel alongside two major Bitcoin wallet founders at Stacks' Building on Bitcoin conference on why Bitcoin's fragmented UX across wallets, layers, and apps is holding back adoption.
[Every] Why I Still Build in Web3
An essay on why web3 remains worth building despite crypto scandals, plus emerging trends in Bitcoin ordinals, Friend.tech's social commerce model, and decentralized GPU computing.
[Curated Show] Behind Creating a Web3 Wallet With Phantom
Podcast interview on building Phantom's multi-chain wallet, onboarding ETH users, and the role wallets play in the web3 ecosystem.
[Fork the Product] Tarik Bellamine and Kevin Kim - Gossamer
Podcast interview on co-founding Gossamer, building a DeFi earning platform for mainstream investors, and the challenges of making crypto accessible.
[Medium] The Next Wave of DeFi Users: A UX Research Study
A UX research study based on 21 interviews with casual crypto users that informed how Gossamer designed DeFi earning tools for mainstream investors.
[Product Festival] Practical User Research for a Global Audience
Talk at Product Festival NYC 2018 on conducting practical, scalable user research methods that work across global audiences and diverse user bases.
[Devcon IV] Guerilla User Research: Step 1 to Mainstream Adoption
Talk at Ethereum Foundation's Devcon IV on doing scrappy, low-cost user research to drive mainstream crypto adoption.
[Quartz] How to Persuade Your Company's Product Team to Build Something
A practical guide for getting product managers, engineers, and designers to actually prioritize and build your feature request.
[HackerNoon] 6 Principles for Designing Dapps for Regular People
Six design principles for making dApps accessible to non-technical users, drawn from winning first place at the Consensus 2018 hackathon.